The news reached New York the next day, prompting an outpouring of messages from the people who consumed her content, and those on the receiving end of the barbs. Even Jerry Saltz, her namesake, chimed in. “I found myself very sad at her death; her writing always had a real suspiciousness, knowingness, and even cynicism to it. But the art world beat a path to her byline,” Saltz wrote on Instagram. “I was very touched by and able to chuckle with knowing at her choice of my first name as hers. She tattled and rattled cages at a moment when this really needed it.” The outpouring of admiration after Helphenstein’s death reveals the story of a complicated person in an industry that’s fiercely territorial about who it lets in. She was an art world social media fixture but was only sporadically able to monetize it. In the last two years, she was navigating an ever-changing online landscape amid an art market in the middle of a downturn. “All I can say is that when she …